Clothes-pin carrier.



No. 797,769. PATENTED AUG. 22, 1905.

L A. HALL.

CLOTHES PIN UARRIER.

APPLICATION rmm JAN. 4. 1905.

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LANE A. HALL, OF MOUNT VERNON, OHIO.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 22, 1905.

Application filed January 4, 1905. Serial No. 239,648.

To all whom, may concern:

Be it known that 1, LANE A. HALL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Mount Vernon, in the county of Knox and State of Ohio, haveinvented new and. useful Improvements in Clothes-Pin Carriers, of whichthe following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to carriers; and its primary object is to provide anovel and highly useful device of this character adapted to be movablymounted upon a clothes-line for the purpose of supporting a receptacleof clothespins, whereby the operator may move the carrier in advancewhile securing wearing-apparel to the line to at all times keep theclothespins within convenient reach.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of thecharacter stated which is simple of construction, cheap to manufacture,durable, and efficient and which is adapted to be readily and quicklyapplied to and removed from a clothes-line.

The invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangementof parts more fully hereinafter described, claimed, and illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, showing the preferred form of my invention,and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a carrier constructed inaccordance with my invention, the same being illustrated in appliedposition upon a clothes-line. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal sectionalview thereof, and Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through thesheave-carrying frame.

Referring to the drawings by reference-numerals, 1 designates thesheave-carryingframe, comprising parallel side bars 2 and end bars 3.Sheaves l are journaled within the frame between the side bars 2 2 bymeans-of pintles 5. Secured to and formed integral with the lower edgesof the side bars 2 2 are depending arms 6 6, which have their lowerportions directed inwardly toward each other, as at 7, and terminatingin elongated arms 8 8. The arms 8 8 have their lower ends bent toprovide hooks 9 9, upon which is adapted to be secured a clothes-pinreceptacle. The arms 5, inwardly-directed portions 7, elongated arms 8,and hooks 9 serve to provide hookarms depending from the sheave-carryingframe. These hook-arms are spaced apart through virtue of theirconnection with the side bars 2 2, and the spacing of the same adaptsthe carrier to be easily and quickly applied to and removed from aclothes-line, as is fully illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings. Securedto and formed integral with the upper edges of the side bars 2 2 arearches 10, the purpose of which is to add rigidity and strength to thesheave-carrying frame 1.

The carrier is adapted to be applied to a clothes-line in the mannerillustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and the clothes-pin receptacle isadapted to be engaged by the hooks 9 9. The carrier in its position uponthe clothes-line may be successfully advanced upon the line as theoperator secures wearing-apparel thereto, whereby it is apparent thatthe clothes-pins are always within convenient reach.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the construction and advantages of my improvedcarrier will be readily apparent with out requiring any further extendedexplanation. It will be seen that the device is simple of construction,that said construction permits of its manufacture at small cost, andthat it is exceedingly well adapted for the purpose for which it isdesigned.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details ofconstruction may be resortedto without departing from the principle orsacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new is- 1.A carrier of the character stated, comprising a sheave carrying framehaving formed integral therewith depending hookarms, and sheavesjournaled within said frame.

2. A carrier of the character stated, comprising a sheave carrying framehaving formed integral therewith depending hookarms spaced apart, andsheaves j ournaled with said frame.

3. A carrier of the character stated, com prising a sheave carryingframe having formed integral with the lower edges thereof depending armshaving their lower portions bent inwardly toward each other andterminating in elongated arms having hooked lower ends, and sheavesjournaled within said frame.

L. A carrier of the character stated, comprising a sheave-carrying frameconsisting of parallel side bars and end bars, said side bars havingformed integral with their lower edges depending arms having their lowerportions directed inwardly and terminating in elongated arms havinghooked ends, the upper edges of said side bars having formed integraltherewith arch members, and sheaves journaled within said frame. Intestimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LANE A. HALL. W'itnesses:

CALVIN V. TROTT, D. B. GRUBB.

